THE mother of a knife attack victim has expressed "immense relief" after her daughter's killer was ordered to be kept locked up.

Percy Wright was sentenced to be detained indefinitely in a mental health clinic after he stabbed mum-of-three Colette Lynch outside her home in Rugby in 2005.

Wright admitted the manslaughter of the 24-year-old on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

But since then, Colette's mother, Helen Lynch, aged 60, of Dunchurch Road, says she feels she has had to fight to stop him being released.

She said a tribunal ruling in Birmingham not to release Wright for the time being, was a huge relief.

She said: "We are immensely relieved the authorities have recognised that Percy Wright is still a danger to the public.

"It is a tragedy that this has been recognised too late to save Colette's life."

She added: "However, we still need to put pressure on the Home Office, as we were also informed the tribunal is recommending that Percy Wright have leave in the future with a view to his rehabilitation."

In July, Mrs Lynch took a 4,200-strong petition to theMinistry of Justice, in London.

Public outrage last November forced a U-turn on a decision to allow Wright unescorted leave from his secure mental unit.

Dozens of people wrote to the Home Office demanding action after he applied to leave Birmingham's Raeside mental health clinic, unsupervised, four days a week.

The Home Office decided then that Wright could leave the clinic, but must be supervised at all times, and must not enter Warwickshire, or contact or approach any member of Colette's family.